Pollitzer Quotes & Sayings

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island
but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. — Stewart O'Nan

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on? — Robert Winston

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. — Luke Bryan

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway? — Tim Duncan

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. — Spider Robinson

The idea of one's normality is delusional fact of the reality. — J. Limbu

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. — Rick Santorum

Wonderful adventures await for those who dare to find them. — Hazel Gaynor

How wonderful, I thought every time I watched it: to stand next to the people who knew you best and hide yourself completely. To be simultaneously secret and exposed, to be concealed in plain sight, to keep yourself safe and to deliberately risk that safety. — Lynn Darling

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising. — Philippa Boyens

Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species — Michel Foucault

It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics. — Feynman, Richard